What the Supreme Court lacked was Groucho Marx

5:40 PM,
Mar. 30, 2013

Bob Elliott

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Bob Elliott
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When same-sex marriage took center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, the questions and responses between justices and attorneys were interesting, but they left us wondering about the outcome.

For me, Tuesday's most interesting exchanges involved two justices who had served the longest time and the least time on the high court bench - 57-year-old Elena Kagan, appointed by President Obama and sworn in as associate justice in 2010; and 77-year-old Antonin Scalia, appointed by President Reagan and sworn in as associate justice in 1986.